I'm sure she can see exactly where Obama falls short in the demographics, and I'm sure she is also looking at the polls and watching the electoral map just like we are, and beginning to see the possibility that the Dems could really lose this election.

She loves her country, and she loves her party, so I think it would come down to whether she would be willing to risk what a loss would mean to her future for the chance to, in essence, rescue Obama - and the party - from himself and put Democrats back in the White House.  Only she knows what she would do, but I have to think she already knows what she would do - and may already have told him one way or the other.

I would like to think I would feel better about a Democratic administration if Hillary were a part of it, but I have so little trust in Obama's abilities, and so little idea what he really believes, what agenda he will end up advancing, that I still do not think I can vote for him.

He's got to swallow  his pride and pick her.  

Sometimes swallowing your pride and admitting you were wrong in saying those things against the Clintons will make you a better man and maybe earn you some respect.

I think that C&L's position is of significant note because of said neutrality.  As my animosity starts to melt, I am finding myself hoping that Obama picks a strong Democrat other than HRC, so it would maybe, MAYBE give me pause to think about voting for him.  

It looks really bad for him to do so now..imo.

The more i think about it I think he'll go with Evan Bayh: (1) Obama needs Indiana back on his column badly (2) Bayh has lots of heavy weight credentials-- no doubt he can be POTUS  (3) He was a HRC supporter and thus they might think that would help with her supporters (I am highly skeptical of this though) (4) He doesn't overshadow Obama and Bayh is very photogenic : nice "visuals" which seems important to Obama's campaign...

I am starting to really lose it!

Hillary, of course, will have to choose what she thinks is best for her and the country, but I think that Obama would be helping his cause to select her. After they appeared together in Unity, NH, his numbers rose. That's a fact.

I feel that Bill Clinton will be SOOOO intimidating to Obama that there would be NO way that it could happen.  If a "President" Obama did anything that looked remotely progressive, the media/pundit class will likely/possibly give credit to the Clintons 'working in the background'.  Policies will look "Clintonesque", when Barack will want them to be "Obamaesque".

Maybe the practical reasons go without saying, but I don't think they do.

The sort of tragic dynamic appears impossible to transcend.  The insecurity that manifests a certain attitude where acknowledging something good about one person is interpretted as a weakness, a sort of admission that one lacks what the other person has.

It's not gonna work if people saying "pick Clinton to win the election."

It'll work when people can admit Clinton has something to offer an Obama white house without thinking they've emasculated Obama by admitting that.

It appears the dem party is now too immature to make the following case to the American people:  hope, change, vision, COMBINED with the experience and know how to get things done.

I think Hillary has too many negatives to be VP.  I am sure she would do a great job in the office, but she would give too much ammunition to the Limbaugh's and Savage's of the world.  Obama would spend too much time deflecting these attacks, reducing his time to go on the offensive.  I mean, if he TXT's "it's Hillary!" to my phone, I might throw it against the wall.  Our goal is a president who is a Democrat.  Can you imagine the slimy, smear ads the 527's will bring out against the Clinton's?  Vince Foster, Blue Dress, Crack, ad nauseum.  Everybody here knows those attacks.  

My vote is Sebelius.  She fits Obama's post-partisan theme, being well-known for working "across the aisle."  She's a Democratic governor from KANSAS, and she's a pro-choice woman, for cripe's sake.  She won handily as a pro-choice Democrat in a very red state.

I say, give Hillary a very broad mandate to work towards universal health care as the Sec of HHS. If McCain is elected, Roe v Wade is finished.  He's admitted it.

Me, I'm back and forth between Biden and Bayh. I think those are most likely. I think Biden gives him some perceived gravitas and Bahy gives him the young change crap and can help with IN. Kaine's out IMO because of recent events here.

Get on with it already - Will this be his modus operandi when he has to make the big decisions.

The only one who may be gaining something here is HRC as her name stays front and center.  

So, Barack. The ball's in your court. You can prove you have some character, and are really thinking about the country and what is best for America.

Or you can prove that your ego is more important than the rest of us. And, that...as the Eagles sing:

Even understanding that a ticket without a middle-aged to elderly white guy would be unimaginable for many people, I was not prepared for the hysteria the notion of a female leader would cause in the political culture. I did think that, as a culture, we had a little more respect for women, their public and private work, their contributions to society as a whole, their strength and intelligence, than it appears we actually do have. It seems we really only have three operative images of women in our culture; Paris Hilton, middle class consumer, and bitter, angry, man-hating (most likely but not always, old) hag. In our cultural concepts women are spenders, but not producers. Victims, but not heroes. Seducers, but not allies and defenders.

With those as the culture's most operative ideas of what "female" means it is hard, and frightening, to make the leap from "female" to "leader of the free world."

Obama/Biden, Obama/Kaine, etc., don't represent any change that is anything other than skin deep.

Obama/Clinton changes everything forever.